Langston Hughes Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
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I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
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Life may not always be fair, but it can be Farrah.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
